With ever mounting pressures hear how trusts have implemented digital systems with an already stretched workforce. This session also provides opportunity to reflect on patient journeys from an NHS clinical informatics team in action as well as gaining insight into key learnings from a Big Bang EPR implementation.
Chair: Dr Paul Jones
CDIO, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Paul is the Chief Digital Information Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, where he leads a team of 450 digital and information staff. He has held senior, digital roles in the public and private sector over the last twenty-years including CTO for the NHS in England and Group CIO at Serco.
Dr Penny Kechagioglou
CCIO and deputy CMO, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Dr Kechagioglou is the Chief Clinical Information Officer, deputy Chief Medical Officer and Consultant Clinical Oncologist at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire. She is Vice-Chair of the Digital Health Networks CCIO Advisory Panel, with research and professional interest in healthcare innovation, digital health and leadership.
Dr Devesh Sinha
CCIO, Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS FT
Dr Devesh Sinha is a Chief Clinical Information Officer for Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He is North East London Stroke Network Lead and Stroke physician. He is an innovator of HOT-TIA, which has been awarded him with Hospital hero, EHI award, HSJ award and NHS Innovation challenge prize.
He has strategized, operationalised, and transformed stroke services at BHRUT with the PRIDEWAY leading to a D-rated service to A or B-rated. This service won the BMJ award for 2019 for rapid transformation.
He is interested in clinician-focused digital intervention with population-based data to prevent secondary events, clinically meaningful AI, and data-led intervention in the pathways.
Dione Rogers
CNIO, Barking Havering and Redbridge NHS FT
Experienced leader and CNIO. Registered general nurse for twenty six years. Women in Tech Excellence Award ‘Digital Leader of the Year 2020’, Florence Nightingale Digital Scholar 2021, and CNIO influencer. Experienced nurse and leader with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital and healthcare industry. Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Professional Practice from the The University of Northampton. Currently studying Healthcare Analytics and Artificial Intelligence MSc at Sheffield Hallan University. Chair of the Midlands CNIO network. Thrilled to have recently received CNO Silver Award for services to digital nursing from Ruth May.
Janet Dodd
clinical support matron, Sheffield Children’s Hospital NHS FT
Janet started her nursing career in Sheffield and specialised in neonates for 23 years. She then became Ward Manager of a paediatric surgical ward. Janet is currently Matron for Digital Technology at Sheffield Children’s Hospital which involves responsibility for the development, implementation and clinical safety of the digital systems used at the trust.
She has always had an interest in patient information and data and although she is not an expert in technology, she embraces digital change and the benefits it brings.
Devesh Sinha, Dione Rogers, Janet Dodd, Paul Jones, Penny Kechagioglou
